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Watts Up With That?http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/some-rational-thought-left-climate-change-as-curriculum-vetoed/ [Watts Up With That?] Schwarzenegger added that the state’s Integrated Waste Management Board’s Office of Education and Environment, along with California’s Environmental Protection Agency, are creating an environmental curriculum for K-12 students that includes climate change issues.Simitian had said his bill wouldn’t dictate what to teach; rather, it would require the state Board of Education and state Department of Education to decide how the topic would be covered and which grades would study it.

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